For those looking to score a job at a hot tech startup or a coveted spot with a tech behemoth like Facebook or Square, the job search scene has an up-and-coming competitor to the traditional career fair: hackathons. Readyforce, a career network for c...

The total prize money up for grabs at next week's Launch hackathon is $1.6 million. Yes, you heard that right. The three-day event runs from Nov. 8 to Nov. 10 in San Francisco, Calif., with $800,000 going to the top two finalists. Launch is the brain...

With free catered food and gallons of energy drinks fueling wired, red-eyed coders, the organizers of MHacks, University of Michigan's second-annual hackathon, say they're confident that the 36-hour marathon will break the Guinness World Record for l...

Facebook is known for its hackathons -- all-night coding sessions designed to help create new products or improve others. Now the company has announced its first Hacker Cup. Facebook says it's "bring engineers from around the world together to compet...

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